Auke Nauta wrote: > If you are interested in the build instructions (for Visual C++ 2010) please > let me know. They > might be useful for other users of your excellent utilities. Hi, I can compile with MS VC++ 9, but the resulting binaries are not as portable as those from VC++6 due to all the SxS library requirements. MingW would produce more portable executables, but VC++6 is a lot faster to compile than GCC or any of the latter MS compiler. Unfortunately my attempts to compile with VC++10 have not been successful - I get lots of error of the form: MSVCRT.lib(crtexe.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__EncodePointer@4 reference in function _pre_c_init MSVCRT.lib(atonexit.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp__EncodePointer@4 MSVCRT.lib(atonexit.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__DecodePointer@4 referen ed in function __onexit which I've not had much luck in tracking down (the wrong library being dragged in ? Wrong compile or link options ?) Graeme Gill.